Dalai Lama slams China in a video chat with Tutu
Cape Town, Oct 9 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama lashed out at China and Chinese leaders as he said on Saturday that the Asian giant is built on lies and the officials of that nation are all ‘hypocrites’.
“Some Chinese officials describe me as demon, so naturally some fear about the demon,” he said in a video chat with South African activist and retired Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu who marked his 80th birthday on Oct 7.
Dalai Lama was supposed to join birthday celebration of Tutu and deliver an inaugural speech at Cape Town but visa problems prevented him from becoming a part of the event.
The exiled spiritual leader slammed the Chinese totalitarian system as he mentioned that lies have become a part of it.
“The communist totalitarian system and not only communist but many totalitarian system, hypocrisy, telling lie, unfortunately has become part of their life,” he said during the video chat with Tutu.
Slamming China, Lama said that ‘censorship’ is ‘immoral’. The huge crowd who had assembled at the hall where the conversation between the two noble laureates was taking place burst into applause as the Tibetan spiritual guru uttered those words.
He urged that the standard of judiciary system in China is very low and that should be raised to the ‘international law standard’.
Lama also mentioned that he would love to attend the 90th birthday of Tutu who was known for his anti-apartheid stand in South Africa.
Chinese government has shared rough relationship with Dalai Lama over the Tibetan issue.
The spiritual leader was honoured with Nobel Peace Prize for his peaceful protest against Chinese occupation of Tibet.
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